In March 2018 Classics students Alison Moller, James Patrick Philips, Joshua Spears, alumnus and Latin teacher at the Oakwood School Thomas Taylor, and ECU FLL faculty members John Stevens, Tricia Wilson-Okamura and Lisa Ellison attended North Carolina Classical Association’s Spring conference at Wake Forest University. There they heard papers on the Persian navy at the battle of Marathon, Caesar’s rhetoric, Cicero on the liberal arts and Visigothic conquests by ECU Professor Emiritus Anthony Papalas and professors of classics from UNC-CH, UNC-A and USC.